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Allow Access to Saved Articles Without Losing Current Article Navigation
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**Feature Summary:
It would be good to be able to bring up your saved articles without losing your current article thread (i.e. the articles you’re clicked through to get to where you are, allowing you to navigate back). Currently if you want to go to saved articles you have to go back home (using the W at the top of the screen), at which point you lose your position. I often “up-next” many articles while reading an article, and want to just quickly view my saved list.

Use Cases:
If you browse multiple topics, for example reading page “iOS”, you might be scroll down and add “Apple” to your reading list and continue reading, but then you scroll down and quickly want to read the “App Store” page. On the “App Store” page you add another few articles to your reading list. You then want to see your reading list. In this revision you could have it pop up and go back to read “iOS”. Once you have read this page you can then just click the back button to go back trough the articles you have read, and complete reading the initial “Apple” article you started on.

Benefits:
Improved user experience. Improved article completion rate (the chance of reading a whole article without becoming lost amongst other articles).

Event Timeline

ARamadan-WMF renamed this task from Feature suggestions: Enhancing Saved Articles Functionality, Auto-Delete, and View Options to Allow Access to Saved Articles Without Losing Current Article Navigation.Sep 11 2024, 8:36 AM
ARamadan-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)

This ticket was created with three feature suggestions, they were removed to separate tickets as follows:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T374515

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T374514

HNordeenWMF moved this task from Needs Triage to Product Backlog on the Wikipedia-iOS-App board.

Thank you for this suggestion! An option to have articles immediately removed after reading could be a setting. We will consider this suggestion the next time we focus on improving the Saved Reading lists (not currently planned for the upcoming year).

We will also use your feedback when considering upcoming changes to our Navigation.